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News for: October 24, 2002
Church requests plaza rehearing
Deseret News
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is asking the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear the Main Street Plaza case. Court documents filed Wednesday ask for a full panel of the 10th Circuit to hear the case. Previously, three of the circuit's judges heard the case, ruling 3-0 against the church.
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CALIFORNIA
4th-graders to 'celebrate' the dead;
Kids to put together altar, bring in photos of deceased kin, pets
WorldNetDaily.com
Fourth-graders at McNear Elementary in Petaluma City, Calif. will be celebrating the dead in a week-long classroom ritual designed to simulate the Mexican holiday "El Dia de los Muertos," or Day of the Dead.
Religious Groups' Practices Worry Some on Campus;
Members of Suspected Cults Say Activities Misunderstood
The Daily Californian
UC Berkeley sophomore Hanesther Kim says although she left a "high-pressure" religious group after a short time, others who spend more time with the group may have been "manipulated" by its ideas.
MICHIGAN
Chevy has faith in tour, but Christianity-themed concerts spark controversy
Detroit Free Press
What would Jesus drive? It's a controversial question implied in a daring new Chevrolet marketing campaign in which the automaker is hitching cars to faith in Christ during 16 evangelical concerts that will end at the Palace on Nov. 23.
UTAH
LDS Church Scolds Rocky Plan
The Salt Lake Tribune
The LDS Church's attorney Tuesday evening criticized Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson's solution to balancing free speech and property rights on the Main Street plaza.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
Scholars: Oldest evidence of Jesus?
CNN
A limestone burial box, almost 2,000 years old, may provide the oldest archeological record of Jesus of Nazareth, according to several experts who announced the finding Monday.
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Ex-Lawmaker In Holy War Against IRS
The Salt Lake Tribune
WASHINGTON -- Four years after publicly acknowledging a previous long-term adulterous affair with her married business partner, former U.S. Rep. Helen Chenoweth-Hage of Idaho is now leading a campaign encouraging Christians to elect "godly leaders."
Fleischer continues defense of Islam;
Blasts words of U.S. evangelicals but won't repudiate other anti-Muslims
WorldNetDaily.com
When asked about "evangelical leaders such as Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell, who have made very disparaging comments about Islam," President Bush's press secretary Ari Fleischer told reporters at the White House daily news briefing today: "The president has repudiated such statements."
CHINA
Falun Gong Sues China's President
The Associated Press
BEIJING -- Falun Gong supporters have sued Chinese President Jiang Zemin in U.S. federal court, accusing him of committing torture and genocide in China's crackdown on the spiritual movement, a lawyer for the group said Wednesday.
FRANCE
Cult: World won't end Thursday after all;
Leader of French sect of six says it 'could be in a month or two'
Religion News Service
PARIS --- Mankind has been granted a reprieve of sorts, since a tiny French cult rolled back a reported Thursday doomsday deadline to ''sometime before Christmas.'' ''We've told everybody --- including the police and reporters --- that Oct. 24 was not the date,'' said Arnaud Mussy, head of the New Lighthouse sect, as he criticized French media for misinterpreting his earlier remarks.
French author who called Islam "dumbest religion" acquitted
Agence France-Presse
PARIS -- A French court on Tuesday acquitted best-selling French author Michel Houellebecq of charges of racial insult and inciting racial hatred for calling Islam the "dumbest religion".
KENYA
Police Arrest Mungiki Members in Kirinyaga
The Nation
Scores of people were yesterday arrested as a major crackdown on members of unlawful Mungiki sect continued in Kirinyaga district. Armed police raided Ngurumbani bus stage at noon and bundled suspected sect followers into a government pickup truck.
SOUTH AFRICA
Two Witchcraft-Killings
East Cape News
GRAHAMSTOWN -- Two women have been killed in separate incidents related to witchcraft. According to police spokesperson supt Nondumiso Jafta a 19-year-old boy shot dead Nontembiso Matikinca, 67, at Matheko location near Umtata on Monday morning. A friend of the deceased, Nolindile Ganyase, 34, was seriously injured in the attack.
UNITED KINGDOM
Geller's quest for battleground is a wash-out
The Herald
Wet weather was blamed for dampening the psychic powers of Uri Geller as he tried yesterday to pinpoint the location of an ancient battleground near Falkirk. The television spoon-bender had hoped to fly over the town in a helicopter and use his mysterious powers to reveal where the 1298 Battle of Falkirk took place - a secret that has eluded historians for seven centuries.
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Geller goes in search of a battle armed with psychic power, The Herald
